Release notes

release notes

Version 1.0 was released on July 23, 2025.

The Remote Upgrader for Windows Universal Forwarders helps you remotely upgrade your universal forwarders for Windows. It monitors for new universal forwarder packages in a predefined folder and upgrades the universal forwarder with new packages. The system then ingests the upgrade detail logs from the universal forwarder to the indexers.

This following known issues were found for the Remote Upgrader for Windows Universal Forwarders .
Table 1. Known Issues
Jira ticket numberDescription
SPL-275654Cannot upgrade Splunk on Windows if the target Splunk openSSL version is earlier than the present version.
SPL-244338The Splunk Remote Upgrader for Windows Universal Forwarders must run as Local System on domain controllers.